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Brazil mocks Argentina after “super-match” was cancelled because of power failure
Chaco Governor Jorge Capitanich publicly regretted and apologized on Thursday for the major embarrassment caused by the suspension of an Argentina-Brazil friendly match scheduled for Wednesday night when the stadium floodlights failed. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThe Argentine power company ELECTROSUDAKA employees must have been on strike again or somethinng like that. Or maybe they are working their 2 hour per day shift or from home on unlimited sick leave with double pay and oh if you ask them to work more than 2 hours a day they picket the headquarters and complain to Kretina and cut off the street in front of the building and shut off all the switches. Typical Argie workers.......
Oct 05th, 2012 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Kretina's day of reckoning is coming.......stay tuned.......!
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@1
Oct 05th, 2012 - 10:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you for real that they work 2 hours a day or is it a joke?
That is even less than UTE and I thought they were bad enough.
The statement about the equipment had to be bullshit or he should sack the electrical worker who did the job.
Well the good cables etc are imported...so they're stuck with what is made in Argentina. Which can't be good. Expensive yes but not good.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Never never never buy “Made In Argentina” it is expensive, falls aparts or burns ( if electric) very quickly.
Hmmm any power cuts in the Falkland Islands (run by a competent government)?
Oct 05th, 2012 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anything made in Argentina is total garbage! My new refrigerator arrived broken from the store, the washing machine broke 3 times in 1 year and my iron lasted about 3 months. Manufacturing here is horrendous, the employees barely work and quality control doesn't exist. I can't wait to get out of Argentina, this whole country is nothing short of a nightmare!
Oct 05th, 2012 - 11:35 am - Link - Report abuse 05. OMG an Argentine made iron! You are lucky your house didn't burn down!
Oct 05th, 2012 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0What did you expect? Only in my country this kind of stuff happens. I feel ashamed and sorry for all the people who wanted to see the game and it ended up in dissapointment.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0So yeah, i guess the plastic queen can't even keep paying ''Futbol para bobos'' anymore.
Everything is falling into pieces and i'm loving it. Should i be afraid? Not in the slightest.
As for the topic regarding the so called national industry, its absolute BS quality. They can't even put a screw and assemble parts.
Every day that passes I get more convinced that MercoPress is actually run by British people.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How about saying anything about the embarrassment of David Cameron at the American (David Letterman's) talk show, uh?
Shame on you, MercoPress.
@8 -PGH
Oct 05th, 2012 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well let's see. Mercopress report on news in South America, as well as other news items that they feel will be of interest to the people if South America.
So David Cameron didn't know what Magna Carta meant in English. So what? He knew what is actually was, what it stood for, and when it was signed, he just isn't very good at Latin, a dead language.
Now let's compare this to Argentina being unable to keep the lights on in an international football competition. It doesn't compare at all.
Now if there had been a power failure during the Olympics, then I'm sure Mercopress would've reported on it, but there wasn't.
So I doubt that Mercopress is being biased against Argentina. After all, Argentina is doing this to itself, you can't expect a news outlet to just ignore what is happening because you don't like the news.
#8
Oct 05th, 2012 - 12:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here in the UK we had a good laugh at it. He should have asked Boris Johnson, then we would have been rolling on the floor !
We have many failings but at at least we can take the piss out of ourselves.
If you watch British TV you can see this in many programs.
Sign of a mature society.
Shsssssss don’t tell anyone but seems someone from secret service told me that this guy was seen hiding in the dark with a huge pair of scissors PRO branded.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.diarioz.com.ar/archivo/1583435-macri_tijeras.jpg
Way to make a point that nobody understands Dany!?!?
Oct 05th, 2012 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Why do you think he embarrassed himself? The audience loved him and he had the maturity and confidence to admit when he didn't know something. All done with good humour.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 02:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By contrast CFKC responded to questions she couldn't answer by being aggressively defensive. She has a highly inflated, paper- thin ego.
This story is all over the South American papers so why not report it here?
FA gave Suarez 8 games for calling Evra “negrito”, FA gave Terry 4 games for calling Ferdinand “f*cking black c*nt”...
Oct 05th, 2012 - 03:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I guess Arg isn't the only ones to embarrass themselves, I mean, what are some disfunctional generators against blatant racism...?
Guzz as ever you've attempted to distort the truth.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 03:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Suarez admitted doing so, Terry has never admitted guilt however the FA considered his defense to be contrived even if he wasn't convicted by the Crown Court.
Different cases and different circumstances.
to #7 and #9
Oct 05th, 2012 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0May I suggest both of you showing cynisism or being deliberately harsh on this matter. From a dispassionate point of view, light failures at stadia are fairly common ocurrences. Further Mr. Bodkin is for whatever reason not telling the truth when stating such cases only happen in his country (an odd position to have to defend a country that is not one's own, from a citizen's views on that very same country!). This was a few months ago at a nationally televised regular season NFL match in the USA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqPE4Aodwa8
And the following was just three weeks ago for the Rugby Championship (ironically New Zealand was hosting Argentina, I believe):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqPE4Aodwa8
It would appear to me that some of the comments here are bred from ill-seated resentment for the Argentine. Unfortunate that some individuals are allowing the misguided actions of politicians or governments to govern their personal feelings and emotions towards an entire nationality, and to lose control over the amount of objectivity and fairness their views express.
One may also place into serious scrutiny the agenda of this website for imputing to such a random incident geopolitical promimence (incident which happens as we see in developed nations as well). One may ask why did they not make headlines out of those extended delays in far more important events like the videos above. I say this because the power outages in those instances were during oficial tournaments, the soccer match that was cancelled was merely a one-off friendly.
Well at least it's not just us mocking rgenweener. Guzz my little ships cat have you any proof of that, obviously not, Terry was cleared in a civil court and the FA punished him for bringing the game into disrepute, not rascism, however, Suarez admitted it and was caught on camera and heard by other players, so your point IS?
Oct 05th, 2012 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It must be the Chilean refs fault, surely?
Oct 05th, 2012 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 LOL
Oct 05th, 2012 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Xect
Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm merely presenting facts, you are the one presenting excuses :)
As for you lots “facts”, read FA decision on Suarez case, you are being nothing but silly parrots. Your very own FA disagrees with you, me, I couldn't care less. I just love to enlighten your double standards, regardless your excuses. As you say yourself, is not what you say what counts, but what you do...
You are not presenting the facts Guzz, you are presenting unfounded conjecture.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If they were facts as you say then Terry would have been convicted in the Crown Court.
Simples!
Xect is correct. There is no recording of the exchange, so what one thinks was said can't be presented as fact.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0to #13
Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“This story is all over the South American papers so why not report it here?”
Are you suggesting Mercopress behave like a South American sporting tabloid? Quite odd. This is trully a non-story.
@3 Yankeeboy
Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You aren't kidding!!!!!!!! I was once renting a home in Uruguay that was owned by Argies, and they had a cooking pot that was made in Argentina in the house, and the thing was SO unbelievably poorly designed, that when you set it down empty or with little in it, the weight of the handle made it tip over.
I mean how mind boggling is that? The VERY FIRST testing on the product, would have been to set it down, and it would have tipped over at the factory or in the executives' offices as they were doing product testing......and yet they gave it the go ahead/thumbs up. ONLY in Argentina, I swear!
But EVERYTHING made in Argentina was JUST like that. I bought 3 pairs of expensive ass convertible (desmontable) pants in Argentina while traveling through it....and all 3 COMPLETELY fell apart within DAYS, it was INCREDIBLE, I had NEVER seen anything like that in my life!
This is what happens when you mix up sports with politics. The associations have much to blame for this. The Brazilian press has been angered over these matches starting with the 1st held in Goiania Brazil. There, the organization was poor and the public was frustrated. There, the politicians had their hand.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2011/oct/24/john-terry-anton-ferdinand-video
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There you have what Terry said, now show me a link of how Suarez abused Evra. By the way, according to FA themselves, Suarez admitted to have said negrito once.
23 ThomasG. (#)
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oct 05th, 2012 - 04:28 pm
Mercopress reports South American news. This is South American news. What is your problem?
Would it be nasty, thoughtless and inconsiderate of me to say that we don't have such power cuts in Britain? The hell with it. We don't have such power cuts in Britain!
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7 Could they not have issued the players and all the spectators with night vision goggles? Tee hee.
@8 But we're proper people. Unlike the anal, belligerent, cheating, degenerate, genocidal, mendacious, thieving argtards. No-one can KNOW everything. The problem with argtards is that that they know NOTHING!
@12 What a fatuous prick he is! Do they get paid by the word or by the comment?
@15 Double jeopardy. An abuse of English common law!
@16 Why did you take such a circuitous route to make your worthless point? But I'll answer it. Basically, a lot of us hate argieland. We also hate those we characterise as “argies”. Vote for CFK, you're an argie. Demand possession of the Falkland Islands, you're an argie. Support breaches of your constitution, international agreements, international law, you're an argie. Get the picture? What do YOU believe? The truth? Or argie lies? If you watch, you'll see that Brit etc. posters agree when an argie makes a truthful point. (Although there aren't many.) Compare that to the reaction of argie posters to Brit etc. points. Go figure. If you have the honesty and integrity!
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Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 026 Guzz,
Oct 05th, 2012 - 05:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you . With your link, you make my point completely.
@26 well ships cat that's cleared it up NOT!!!!! did you notice the black player walking past Terry at the time of the alledged abuse. Ashley Cole so I doubt he would be calling anyone a black C*^t when 6 out of his own team are black, anyway he was found not guilty in a civil court where as Suarez ADMITTED it end of dit. PS I have no time for John Terry I think he's a nasty piece of work so I'm not just winding you up but evidence is on his side whereas Suarez had no defence.......bit like rgenweener really : )
Oct 05th, 2012 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0►16
Oct 05th, 2012 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ThomasG a.k.a Truth Telling Troll (?).
Gotcha
►28
Lmao good one.
I couldn't care less for your sad to justify your racism. Just pointing out the facts the world were presented to... :)
Oct 05th, 2012 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not racist pal never have been never will be against anyone, when you fight wars alongside brothers from all religions and races that shit goes out the window, perhaps you should try it
Oct 05th, 2012 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 024 mastershakejb (#)
Oct 05th, 2012 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are a true commedian. I lived in Argentina and I never experienced anything ie what you described.
How do you know the pot that you described was made in Argentina? A lot of potts in Argentina are imported from Paraguay.
As for clothing. Argentina has always been known to produce very good and elegant clothes, comparable to European fashion. In fact, fashions styles Europe have traditionally arrived inn Argentina before they arrived in the USA. You can find clothing of varying quality today, from locally made European style fashion that is high quality to shoty cheap quality from sweat shops in Buenos Aires.
I still have Argentine Fargo jeans that I bought 15 years ago that have outlasted my Levis. I must admit that I use them less because I prefer their fit and would like to save them for as long as I can.
Where did you buy yours, at the Salada?
35. That may have been when the Peso was equal with the U$ but that was a long long time ago.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 09:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most high fashion International Brands have left or are leaving. The quality of Argentina clothes is atrocious. the women's clothes use a lot of poly blends and now with the import restrictions there is no access to any decent fabric eventhough there are some decent designers. They are having a hard time making anything that would be considered nice in the USA EU or Japan.
Maybe you have lived outside of the country too long to know what is really happening.
It is awful simply awful and on top of that expensive!
This is nothing new in sports really. I remember conversations of power outages at major sports in the US and Canada in years past that ended the game. Can't provide details as to where or when though. It really could happen anywhere, and it is usually due to some existing and unknown technical flaw that no one caugh before.
Oct 05th, 2012 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@mastershakejb
Oct 06th, 2012 - 07:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0I guess you are so stupid that were using a Chinese wok for your description ha ha
@ Briton
Power cuts in Britain...Nah!
Britain facing power cuts like in 1970
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210297/Britain-facing-power-cuts-time-70s-Government-predicts-shortages-year.html
Britain 'facing electricity blackouts'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210297/Britain-facing-power-cuts-time-70s-Government-predicts-shortages-year.html
UK 'at risk of electricity blackouts by 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210297/Britain-facing-power-cuts-time-70s-Government-predicts-shortages-year.html
Britain is “quite simply running out of power” and blackouts are almost inevitable within the next few years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210297/Britain-facing-power-cuts-time-70s-Government-predicts-shortages-year.html
Current Britain outage map
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210297/Britain-facing-power-cuts-time-70s-Government-predicts-shortages-year.html
May be this will be useful for you
Power 4 Home ha ha
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210297/Britain-facing-power-cuts-time-70s-Government-predicts-shortages-year.html
@38 Dunni-Burger
Oct 06th, 2012 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know you read my posts so the item about the UK facing power shortages should come as no surprise to you.
Do you not recall I went through the reasons why this will be the case in the nuclear power topic of a few weeks ago.
Basically, for others, it is down to weak governments giving in to the lies of the green set and global warmests; now changed to climate changers when they realised that the hockey stick graph might just have been made out of wood because it too was false.
Replacement nuclear stations should have been started under BLiar, but being the coward that he is he ducked it and now it is much too late other than to keep old coal power stations running.
This of course is against EU law but experience shows us that only the Brits respect every EU law, even when it's a disaster for the country. Germany are building new coal stations right now.
So, 'laugh and cackle' as much as you like, but it does not alter the fact that the lights were out and Brasil is taking the piss out of AG and YOU tell us they are your bosom buddies! Ha, ha, ha.
BA has power outages all the time! I was there for a massive one that took out all of downtown. I was scarey! SCAREY! Every shop owner and restaurant brought down their gates for fear of looting. It was out for a really long time too.
Oct 06th, 2012 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0What are power cuts up against school massacres...? :))))
Oct 06th, 2012 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Guzz/Toby? TTT whatever you are calling yourself this fine day. I was just checking the web I don't see UNASUR representation in DC. Are you sure this group exists outside of South America? If it is supposed to represent all of SA as a block how come it doesn't have representation in the USA like the EU, ASEAN, Arab League...
Oct 06th, 2012 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think it really exists and neither does the rest of the world that matters.
Hmm...
That's an easy one, we couldn't care æess of you, DC or USA...
Oct 06th, 2012 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0So Toby you don't need to have diplomatic relations with anyone outside of the members of Unasur? Hmm that is odd. What is the point of UNASUR then? How do you speak as a group?
Oct 06th, 2012 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you know anything about diplomacy or are you just being obtuse?
You lot aren't “anyone”, you are “no one”... We deal with the important actors on the market. China, India, Middle East, hopefully More Scandinavia in the future. You lot are a necessary evil, like brake trails in ones underwear, a product of bad wiping...
Oct 06th, 2012 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@43 Ugh you might not be able to afford toilet paper but you don't have to share the fact with the rest of us.
Oct 06th, 2012 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 046
Oct 06th, 2012 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Toilet paper? You mean pound sterlings? What would I want those for???
So can you name the cities where you have UNASUR representation outside of South America? I am very curious.
Oct 06th, 2012 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you want to leave out the USA and EU that is your own business. I think you'll be fine trading with all the countries that used to be considered dynamic ( China, India, UAE) but are now failing. I would guess SA knows how do deal with that problem (Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador) plenty of failed countries to choose from...
Leave those worries to us... Don't you have an Obama to vote for? Some kids to shoot/aid? We will leave you to your decline, and as you are convinced we'll meet at the bottom, leave us to ours
Oct 06th, 2012 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Toby, We will be the richest most powerful nation long after you and your kids are dead.
Oct 06th, 2012 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is funny that people who have never been to the USA think it is as horrible and dangerous as whatever 3rd world sh!thole they crawled out of.
Come for a visit sometime, you can see all the world's treasures in our museums, you can spend weeks going through just the Smithsonian and never see it all, see the majesty of NYC, every culture, every food is within blocks of each other, you can find any item you want from anywhere in the world, see movies, plays in just about every language and it is clean, quiet, safe and electrifying all at the same time.
Or you could see Chicago, Miami, LA, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta each city is different and amazing. It is the only place in the world like it.
So you can think what you want and read articles of our demise but we are in the best shape of any of the major countries and it will remain so for as far out as anyone can predict.
All I would see is what can be accomplished by killing children in guatemala, nicaragua, brazil, argentina, uruguay, chile, paraguay, korea, vietnam, afghanistan, iraq, sudan, somalia, haiti, serbia...
Oct 06th, 2012 - 01:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What you see as progress, is nothing but decades of stealing, raping, murdering and exploiting. Why would I want to see what you have built upon children blood, your own included?
How in the world did the CIA miss exterminating your family? You seem like just the right mix of arrogant crazy communist we were looking to get rid of.
Oct 06th, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I also think we should go back in the business of destabilizing countries or routing ideals we don't like. I think we are too wishy washy now. Hopefully Romney will fix that but good!
More happy news for Argentina, soon they will be embargoed world wide! www.nypost.com/p/news/business/singer_hunt_for_treasures_eBCiGMJEn8gOYhkoux94EJ
Oct 06th, 2012 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@yankeeboy
Oct 06th, 2012 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“business of destabilizing countries”
Well seem that in US someone is resorting to “Substitution of Exports Policy” and is working in the destabilising business but at home.
How you noted how poor, backward, indebted, corrupted and destabilised US had become?
May be the Chinese have something to do with that?
I guess if they dump the US dollars, in 5 month half of US will be looking for food in rubbish bins.
Add to that that Amexican kill them self in cinemas and schools, plus every terrorist around the globe trying to blown you up from the face of earth, plus narco cartels having arsenals in US, Criminals killing people in the streets, etc, etc.
Well I guess you will be so busy at home trying to don’t be killed your self and do ya want to put your self more in danger trying to destabilising other countries?
Are you made or what mate?
I will be buying and extra round of amo to not be killed just in US if I would be you.
Dumbo, Since the U$ is what is used between trade with China, tell me, how could they “dump it”. Also do you think it would be in their own best interest to mess up the USA financially...not saying they could but would it?
Oct 06th, 2012 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You get dumber every day...
@ yankeeboy
Oct 07th, 2012 - 05:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Dumbass, if you have a currency in large amount and you know that is loosing and will loosing even more value with a lot of possibility to collapse and you also are also receiving it in large amount every day what will you do?
Answer getting rid of it as soon as possible buying tangible asset outside the dollar collapsing area.
Worked for the peso in Argentina and works for the US dollar and Euro and any toilette paper called money especially for those that says in god we trust.
Been trapped and losing half of the value or some 5, 10, 50 k USD is not a big deal but for someone having trillions of toilette paper is pretty scary.
So China and investors are moving shitty intangible dollar assets into something to be tradable in any other currency or whatever. The world is not to be ended because the dollar collapse this is just in your imagination. Many will be trapped with shitty dollars in the future that may be can buy some ARG pesos.
Because Argentineans are mad for the green shitty toilette paper.
Ivestors getting rid of the US dollar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gPfkJXeQ40
It's Official: China Will Be Dumping US Dollars | ZeroHedge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gPfkJXeQ40
China Cleverly dumping US dollars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gPfkJXeQ40
Do you understand now why China and investors are buying other currencies, commodities futures investing in countries that even local will put a cent in it, etc?
Have you recently checked if you are not among the Dumbass of the year?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gPfkJXeQ40
yanqui
Oct 07th, 2012 - 07:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Read the Chinese Communist Party's agenda, according to themselves, their aim is to dissolve the state at some point, and the economical system with it...
57 Guzz
Oct 07th, 2012 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0So what about the Chin government billionaires, you know, ripping off their own people for their own pockets. Just like in AG if you think about it.
Do you REALLY think that they will take any notice of what THEY have written, that is just for the poor sods who work for a living?
All governments try to get away with little dodges (MP's expenses) or BIG dodges, TMBOA millions and VERY BIG dodges, the Chin Billions.
The Chin government are presently shit scared there will be serious unrest with the clamour for greater wages at a time when businesses cannot afford to increase their prices for fear of choking off demand.
Try and get up to speed with what is going on rather than what is written: the two things are never the same.
Chris
Oct 07th, 2012 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0To be honest, I have no clue what the Chinese plan to do after this transaction of power is finished. But I can tell you that whatever it is, it can't be worse than what you lot have been doing the past 500 years...
59 Guzz
Oct 07th, 2012 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I suggest you read The Red Dragon by Tom Clancy.
I know who has a GREAT grid! (and 4g)
Oct 07th, 2012 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Which nation has the LEAST poor?
Rhyme with me!
Singapore!
Their 10% least wealthy household makes $1586 a month.
Their 10% most affordable apartments are $18-$250 a month.
Their middle class is the world's richest!
Their unemployment is 2%.
They're libertarian.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16920951
“Mercopress reports South American news. This is South American news. What is your problem?”
Oct 07th, 2012 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do they? The most important South American news story this week, the Venezuelan elections, has had so far not one solitary story here at Mercopress.
Meanwhile, they don't miss a beat in reporting power outages at a stadium in Argentina.
They do not do a very good job at reporting south Amreican news. On the other hand, they seem to do an excellent job of things if the definition is “have an anti-Argentine” agenda.
When seen from those terms, then everything fits marvelously.
@62 AGob (TTT)
Oct 08th, 2012 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Moaning already and you have only had your new tag a few hours.
I expected better.
@63
Oct 08th, 2012 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Will any of you ever answer a question posed upon you?
Simon said this website reports South American news, thus this news article is legitimate.
Only a completely dense individual would find moaning a legitimate question, which happens to be the most important topic being covered in all South American papers.
They don't post SA news, they post Brit news. What the hell does Gibraltar has to do with the South Atlantic???
Oct 08th, 2012 - 05:47 am - Link - Report abuse 065 Guzz
Oct 08th, 2012 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's being harassed by your forefathers as is the Falklands (there are STILL no Malvinas), albeit with as little success as the fabled MBOA.
@65 Guzz Please stop with the overall Brit bashing please, most of us are nice people who actually respect other countries.
Oct 08th, 2012 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway, just wanted to make a point that the UK has one of the strongest currencies in the world, where Argentina has one of the 'not so strong' currencies. Always has been a good currency for business, especially against the US and EU.
@Guzz,
Oct 08th, 2012 - 08:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When did the US kill Chilean children?
..
and just to add some facts to your rant. The US was more developed than Europe prior to WW2, at which point they kept themselves to themselves mostly. If anything you should see war dead children in their recent relative demise.
...
Anyway Yanqui is right that no one is going to break their global hegemony for a long time. They still out innovate the world by a long way and as they pull back from their foreign wars they will open up that gap again.
@Yanqui, you will find many more of the world’s treasures in the museums of London.
“Anyway Yanqui is right that no one is going to break their global hegemony for a long time.”
Oct 09th, 2012 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you suggesting this gives this poster the right to look down on everyone else, particulary the humiliating (and mostly obscenely exagerated) descriptions he gives of the Argentineans ? That's a very odd stance.
@THEMan
Oct 09th, 2012 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Anyway, just wanted to make a point that the UK has one of the strongest currencies in the world, where Argentina has one of the 'not so strong' currencies.”
UK has not one of the stronger currency in the world otherwise has the most overvalued currency which is another thing. UK currency can easily be broken with 25billon dollars by short selling it.
To brake US currency you will need several trillions.
Another thing to note is that previous financial crisis UK pound value was 1.92 US dollar for 1 pound and now is 1.608 US dollar for 1 pound.
Taking into account the devaluation of the US dollar what we can say that lost more than 30% of its purchasing power, etc.
How much value had lost the British pound in real terms?
60% perhaps and falling?
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/markets-sterling-close-idINL6E8L8I8220121008
British pound can fall even further to 1.39 USD for 1 pound like in 1992/1993 if don’t trust me ask former chancellor Exchequer Norman Lamont when he has to withdraw GBP from Exchange Rate Mechanism.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/markets-sterling-close-idINL6E8L8I8220121008
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/markets-sterling-close-idINL6E8L8I8220121008
That is coming soon speculators will broke the pound again when the right time comes and KaMoron provides all the measures need to weak even more UK economy with further cuts and more depression on UKs economy.
So my best advise to British pound holders is to buy US dollar or Swiss Frank before you lost your savings...
Maybe true but you still won't get the Falklands
Oct 09th, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0@69 Bacilus
Oct 09th, 2012 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I am not condoning anyone insulting anyone else, I was merely agreeing with Yanqui on that point.
@Clyde15
Oct 09th, 2012 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I would be the president of Argentina in the Islands will be flying the ARG flag since long time ago. And without shooting one bullet.
Don't abuse your good luck mate...
#73
Oct 09th, 2012 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But you are not, are you ? So, tough titty.
@73 Dunni-Burger.
Oct 10th, 2012 - 10:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you don't want the sex change operation, injections of Botox in your face and severe bi-polar syndrome then I suggest you write to TMBOA and tell her how to do it.
I am sure she will listen!
LOL
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